The Governor's Convoluted Medicaid Politics

Our emperor ? Governor Bryant ? now has no clothing to shield his Medicaid politics. He has exposed the naked truth about his refusal to accept Federal money to expand Medicaid in Mississippi in his threat to sue the Federal government if it doesn?t reimburse state hospitals under Obamacare for the FREE healthcare they provide through emergency room services to the working poor and other Mississippians who can?t afford health care.

The Governor doesn?t really object to Federal dollars subsidizing health care. He just wants state hospitals to get the money for inefficient health care delivery through emergency rooms rather than the state government Medicaid program which he believes will mismanage the funds. That says a lot about the Governor?s perception of himself as the state?s chief executive to manage agencies under his control while demonstrating his convoluted, cynical political thinking that either doesn?t understand the healthcare system in Mississippi or doesn?t care about it!

Obamacare Medicaid expansion is about assuring primary care to people who can?t afford to pay for health care when their conditions are treatable at relatively low costs and eliminating the free emergency room-based health care system that serves them when their conditions have deteriorated and their treatment costs have soared.

Even with Federal funding to support emergency room free care, Mississippians who can afford health care also pay for it through increased hospital fees and/or higher health insurance premiums.

The Governor professes concern for Mississippi citizens as tax payers in his opposition to Medicaid expansion, but he is clearly indifferent to them as health care consumers who purchase hospital services and insurance coverage. If the Federal government reduces funding that supports emergency room free care, they will not only pay more in hospital fees and insurance premiums to sustain the existing system, but see possible closures of financially shaky hospitals in some of the rural areas where they live.

Bob ArnoldWessonUser submission

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The Governor's Convoluted Medicaid Politics

Our emperor ? Governor Bryant ? now has no clothing to shield his Medicaid politics. He has exposed the naked truth about his refusal to accept Federal money to expand Medicaid in Mississippi in his